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Thats the hapiness of being employeed I mean. I dont Zen that much these days. As I have mentioned many times before on the blog, I am back on the “new jersey blue collar” plan of action.

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A woman recently posted this comment on my site. I thought she deserved to have the spotlight on this blog, so that comment is now an article.

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My apologies to you readers who are wondering where the heck are the new postings from harry. And unfortunately this is no more than an apology posting to my recent commenters.

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WOW, has it REALLY been since October that I last put out a post?  Sorry about that gang. I never meant to let that much time go past before the next posting.

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Alcoholics Anonymous has been around since the late 1930’s.  Every year since the printing of its book in 1939, the fellowship has grown. AA can be found in literally hundreds of countries and on every continient. Whether or not you have ever been part of any 12 step fellowship, you would have to conclude that what ever this blog has to say against AA just has to be wrong. I mean that’s the only conclussion a reasonable person can come to, right?

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This will be a short posting. Its a question to the more critical of my audience.

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Chapter Five of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous is perhaps the most well known text within the AA Fellowship. It might even be well known outside of the world of 12 step fellowships. These are the opening words to the chapter known as HOW IT WORKS:

“Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program………….”

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It has not been lost upon me that there is a cost involved with telling, retelling and reliving past negative experiences. Doing so makes them current negative experiences. There is some wisdom in letting it go. So with my writing for this blog, in addition to getting to put my experience, strength and hope in writing, there also comes the burden of negativity.

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Lately I have gone back to attending the Saturday Night Speaker meeting. I dont attend it often nor regularly and when I am there, its almost always on a Saturday Night when I am bored. Saturday Night boredom is another of the gifts of the program I had received.

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A few postings ago I put up the story of how my employment and job seeking went from years 1 through 5. At the end of this story I make mention of the week where I have two great job offers and I was not sure how to choose.  This posting is that story. I am going to write this out telling you how I thought about it at that time. This is not sarcasm. (Well in this posting there isn’t any).

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